Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

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Comparison of Gauss's and Legendre's formula in approximating the prime counting function along with results analysis. Unified constructive and non-constructive proofs of three number theory problems: ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

ABSTRACT: By our suggested definition, an even number Ln is called the largest strong Goldbach number generated by the n-th prime Pn if every even number from 4 to Ln is the sum of two primes not ...

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